Editing Josh Marshall (section)

==Early life and career==
Marshall was born in [[St. Louis, Missouri]].<ref name='cjr-josh-marshall-plan'/><ref name='ft-quick-off-the-blog'/> Marshall's father was a professor of marine biology. His mother died when he was young.<ref name="nytimes-fear-and-laptops">{{Cite news |last=Klam |first=Matthew |author-link=Matthew Klam |date=September 26, 2004 |title=Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail |publisher=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/magazine/26BLOGS.html |access-date=May 18, 2007}}</ref>

He is a graduate of [[the Webb Schools]] of California and [[Princeton University]] and earned a [[PhD]] in American history from [[Brown University]].<ref name="cjr-josh-marshall-plan" /><ref name="ft-quick-off-the-blog" /> In the mid-1990s, Marshall designed websites for law firms and published an online news site about Internet law, which included interviews with prominent scholars such as [[Lawrence Lessig]].<ref name="cjr-josh-marshall-plan" />

Marshall began writing freelance articles about Internet free speech for ''[[The American Prospect]]'' in 1997 and was soon hired as an associate editor.<ref name="cjr-josh-marshall-plan" /> He worked for the ''Prospect'' for three years<ref name="nytimes-fear-and-laptops" /> and in 1999 moved to [[Washington D.C.|D.C.]] to become their Washington editor.<ref name="cjr-josh-marshall-plan" />
He often clashed with the top editors at the ''Prospect'', over both ideology and the direction of the website.<ref name="cjr-josh-marshall-plan" />